A trip to Dubuque for Christmas Day, with roast beef dinner at the assisted living facility, followed by opening of gifts. Last year I gave Mom and Dad some assorted candies, this year I went for salty snacks. Plus springerle cookies "imported" all the way from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. I discovered Springerle House at the farmer's market across from the hotel in Lancaster where Stitching Jubilee was underway. It's a great farmer's market, and the springerle cookies are excellent! Fortunately they do mail order, so in December I order some for myself and some as Christmas gifts.
This would have been my 45th wedding anniversary; my husband and I were married on Christmas Eve in 1969. So, the holidays had a somber note for me this year due to this milestone. I remember when Stan was dying back in 2007, the on-call chaplain who arrived in the hospital room in the middle of the night, asked how long we had been married. My response: "thirty-seven years...but not long enough." Some days it is still an effort to get through the day without him.
But on to more cheerful things. I ended up finishing several stitching pieces. First up is a chart I purchased at the ANG Seminar in Chicago. The designer's name should be familiar - I've done a number of her designs.
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| Nordic Valentine by Laura J. Perin Designs |
Next is a smaller piece, a needlecase. Here are the stitched front and back, ready to be assembled. Textile Heritage makes a "Violets" series and a "Lily of the Valley" series of small accessories: needlecase, bookmark, sachet, and scissor keep. I earlier completed stitching on and posted a photo of the "Lily of the Valley" scissor keep. Here is the Violets needlecase.
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| Violets Needlecase by Textile Heritage |
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